Directed Evolution of U.S. Political Economy Stimulates Debt

The U.S. economy headed for more than a decade down a financial development chute of Elton John entertainment emulating political economy with the zeitgeist in an age of fracture of existential narrow-mindedness. As if public debt doesn't matter anymore and bad public policy causality has no effect that cannot be ignored the Federal Reserve became an accomplice to the biggest bank boost ever proacted sending out two trillion dollars of electronic cash with zero interest and restoration of wealth from the top down. Like the initial pyramid scheme the money never trickles down to those long-term unemployed or those with homelessness.

 In the inside economic job school of wealth creation capital is concentrated and the world is goaded toward a godless, atheist, homosexualized scientifically illogical post-modernist Anglo-American Neo-Habsburg evil empire synthetic template.

 I wouldn't want to be misunderstood. Original sin affects all human society and ontological evil empires are common enough amidst an historical parade of evil empires led by leaders lusting with pure greed as the highest virtue. Intelligent political design is ever a challenge to nations failed. They tend to opt in time for the low hanging frit of global trade and leveraged labor forsaking invention and perpetual exospheric improvement for all of society in the process. I simply wanted to point out that capitalism following just self-interest in a totalized geophysical environment brings social ruin amidst ecosphere collapse when the word 'enlightenment' is taken out of the concept of the pursuit of enlightened self-interest.

 Capital is nothing more than concentrated wealth and power and may be an element of any sort of political or economic system. Capitalism with enlightened public self-interest directing it can no more evolve a best-case ecosphere-benevolent economy than a culture of amoeba as it pursues pure personal greed as the highest social good.

 One might wonder if God has allowed the U.S. political leadership to become daft and decadent in order that the world might be readied through its leading decadence to the harvest of Armageddon. One recalls the words of the Lord to the prophet Ezekiel about Oholah and Oholibah.

 Instead of 18 states choosing to war upon world cultural traditions and sensibility with legalized homosexual marriage, pouring new vinegar into old wine skins, those malevolent politicians could have legalized legal entanglements that would let any number of individuals legally join their interests as one more personally than corporations without moral judgment. The Occam's razor of legal and economic effectiveness would have determined the numerically optimal size of those entangled.

 Sex and emotion would not be a necessary factor in forming an entanglement. People could do so for any purpose, and marriage and cultural history could keep a semblance of reason about it. Construction of the Brave New World and Eric Blairian 1984 scenarios might be put off, yek so what?

 An Elton Johnification of political economy with mad-hatterish disregard for perpetual Keynesian deficit spending and over-sized egos without social realism or regard for God is a product of the age of fracture and existential transformation of the empirical world, quite irrationally. The move toward macro-economic social and exospheric irresponsibility as normative is an expression of the corruption of democracy by elites that are not as smart at general intelligence or philosophical reason as the are at technology and convoluted financial scams. Scientific savants reproduced a moral and ethically retarded worldview founded in evolution theory and nothing else that nothing matters. The trouble with a little learning sufficient to persuade one that they are the all wise and all knowing is that it tends to preclude intellectual development. Atheistic scientists tend to be guilty of that philosophical error when the make leaps of faith beyond science into language and logic and generate Humean causal metaphysic errors and Kantian antinomies of empiricism dogmatically assertive and wrong. Like Immanuel Kant they should make room for faith as well as octonians, Lie and exceptional Killing groups. B.F. Skinner was not right about human organic behavior. God is right, the pure greed theory is wrong.

Air Force Desire for Fantasy Football

 If the U.S. government leads the people toward new peonhood as one people amidst a world of nations subducted into corporatist-communist global networks of power, or stimulates new wars boldly where no wars have been recently fought, it is only because certain elites believe they know better than the people, and because they control the broadcast media power instead of individual citizens within a democratic access paradigm. For the poor, middle class and the ecosphere it is nothing to prosper about.

 Why didn't the Federal Reserve issue no-interest cash loans to the poor of the United States s they could buy lots and build modest homes instead of puffing up the filthy rich one more time?

Question About Forms in The Philosophy of Space

Certain basic questions exist regarding the physics of space. These might be regarded as philosophical questions though they often are developed upon the basis of physics. Philosophical questions of cosmology and theology (the latter in regard to the metaphysics of God) pertain to the unknown, or at least to other than physically contiguous approaches to regarding then known such as mathematical physicists might develop.

I reread a book on the history of mathematical symmetry in the development of geometry and algebra recently. That topic leads to M-Theory via topology, Lie algebras and exceptional Killing groups. It was learned that there are a finite number (in a sort of Cantorian way) of root forms for non-Euclidian geometries, as Euclid found a limited number of geometrical shapes mathematicians discovered that geometries and forms can be represented algebraically in matrices and groups.

Extra dimensions in these algebras are variables rather than considered as actually in the real world. Yet the equations may actually work in quantum physics. M-Theory draws together several groups that exist in superstring theory. The super in string theory was a progress from supersymmetry.

Standard Orthogonal 1 dimensions SO(1), Unitary 1 and so on refer to forms for quantum structures in 1 dimension. An illustration given was the use of a two-dimensional flat paper with one axis representing space and the other time. If a ring were to make contact on the surface of that paper two-dimensional world it might resemble a one-dimensional point from one angle, or from another angle it might resemble a line segment or string. The ring of course goes up vertically from the flat paper laying on a table into a third dimension that the 2 dimensional dwellers don't see yet might infer exists. The loop/ring in extra dimensions could be considered to be like a drum surface that gives off vibrations, and those vibrations are quantum loops that comprise the mass-energy of the steady-state Universe we live in.

The math for superstring and M-Theory seems to correspond better toward the real world supposing ten or more dimensions exist. Progress in math useful for those cosmology researches continues. One may wonder philosophically if some of the mathematical theories even if successful at modeling a good level of a unified physics would exhaust the possibilities for what might be known at deeper levels of the Existential Universe 1 and of course of the metaphysics of a Supreme Being that allows anything extensible to exist at all, for one winders with the neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus, why?

There are 238 possible forms of crystal structures and 226 possible forms of syllogisms. Is it entirely a coincidence that human capacity for developing argumentation forms of syllogism are so close to the maximum number of possible crystal forms? It seems entirely coincidental, yet such symmetries in unrelated fields are interesting to consider, as is...

If there is an infinite amount of space, then mass must be comparatively finite.

 or

 If mass and space are convertible then, there may be an infinite amount of space and an infinite amount of mass, yet not at the same time. If there were an infinite amount of mass then there would be no space, and if there were an infinite amount of space then there would be no mass.

Could an infinite amount of space be reduced? Could an infinite amount of mass be diminished?

Is a very large amount of space comparable to an infinite amount of space?

Can a finite amount of absolute space exist? Mustn't absolute space be infinite?

Mass, space and energy as convertibles may require different dimensional structures or configurations. The form or cohesiveness of structures in space-time are epiphenomenal locality...dreams of a universe in-themselves.

Ineffective Presidential Economic Leadership

The President twice had all the negotiating chips on his side and just gave them away. Twice he could have let the Bush tax cuts expire and instead having the strong hand to play. He has allowed interminable procrastation on budgeting to occur as if that's another four year plan. The rational alternative to raising taxes is cutting spending and he refuses to do that. With a little effort he could work with Republicans to cut spending a 100 billion a year-maybe each of the next four years. Why not?

The President could make a list and so could the Republicans-then each side could protect 50% of their list and the other side could delete 50%. That's a compromise approach.

The President may want the Republican leaning Fed Chief Bernanke to continue to print money to fund government. The Fed makes billions and billions of zero interest loans to banks so banks can buy up the houses foreclosed on because of bank bungling at fire-sail  prices and also to invest that cash in Wall Street so Wall Street can create jobs in China. Yeah- President Obama-go team!

High Tech-Pulleys, Fuel Efficiency, Economic Invention; The Uncertainty of Ideas

It seems like a silly idea at first, like something a 19th century car designer or Mike Trogg of cave man days might have imagined: increase the power and fuel efficiency of a car by reducing the workload on the wheels with several turns of car length composite-fiber pulleys before connecting to half-axles that turn the wheels. One might have expected Lance Armstrong to invent recumbent sit down trikes with unfair pulleys to beat the competition yet never the U.S. Postal Service struggling with rain, snow, sleet, hail and perennial deficits.

 Basic physical principles are simple to build up and easy to take down with folly. Does gravity convert mass to energy for warping space simultaneously creating black holes and also accelerating Universal expansion? Does the presence of mass in a Higgs field base when increased affect the shape of the field creating the effect of warping spacetime as proportional perhaps clogging smaller dimensional ties? Aren't black holes empty at the singularity having converted all the mass input mass into warped spacetime energy?

 Inventions and contemplative thought may be synthetic sides of the same process emerging into idea. The economy too is a concatenation of applications of myriad forms of capitalism selected for actualizations and sometimes evolved as an inertial compilation for good or bad. Dictators and kings may have capital and the slaves none. Liberalism at its heart is the denial of the right of anyone to coerce any other to do or be anything. The rectification of names such as north and south magnetic poles, male and female reproductive apparatus meaning particular ideas rather than anything at all, that is discriminating by not giving east the meaning of south or naming a bear an ant, is an essential attribute o the use of words in a coherent description of truth. With words and objects being reciprocally referenced by association it is valuable to keep language meaningful. North and south magnetic poles attract, males and females reproduce and that is socially recognized in marriage, inventiveness and economic construction occurs in a real global ecosphere with the health of each reinforced and conformed through intelligent analytical comprehension instead of explicit, incidental evolutionarily determined sprawl. One may have faith that God will direct one toward the most excellent developments as if the economy too evolved naturally, yet God's purposes are somewhat mysterious and economic determinism seems as uncertain as evolutionary determinism in a given theory of capitalism.

 There was a time in the distant past when people believed killing sea otters and placing a bounty on them would improve shellfish quantity. It turned out that sea otters eat echinoderms that eat shellfish and kelp too, at the roots. A lot of sea lives including some fish start their life in salt-water kelp. When the kelp is gone so are the fish. Thus those sea otters were the defenders of saltwater fisheries and shellfish before maladaptive human interventionist predation. If there are good ways to reduce loss of biodiversity and increase transportation efficiency that can be found it's always a good time to apply them.

 Unemployment should be triaged to create incentives to hire those jobless longest first. Social benefits from eliminating pockets of long-term unemployed would be significant while the process would be merciful and probably productive by introducing micro-capital to sectors of poverty running on empty. Some of those people might think outside the fossil fuel box a little more often than most and that could be productive.          

                                                                  

Federal Debt 1991 and 2013; Digging a Deeper Hole

I wrote a letter on U.S. national debt in December of 1991 to The All Alaska Weekly-a now defunct newspaper. In that letter I reviewed the historical development of public debt. Following are three paragraphs from that letter and a 2013 review of the financial circumstance of the public debt crisis and what is needed to resolve it.

December 13, 1991 All Alaska Weekly

National Debt

To the editor; The Republican Party at the national level, as holders of the Presidential post, have increased the national debt from $900 billion in 1980 to $3 trillion in 1992. For comparative purposes, the U.S. had virtually no debt of permanence until World War II.

 It took from 1940 to 1980 just to reach $900 billion.

 The gross national product is about $5 trillion. Reagan nearly doubled the gross national product of America, but also nearly tripled the national debt. That is deficit-financed growth. Another interesting fact is that since the Korean War, the U.S. national debt has never been reduced. If a politician says he will get rid of the debt, it would be an historical anomaly to do it.

2013-What is Needed to Pay off $17 Trillion of U.S. Public Debt

The federal budget should be brought into balance directly with cuts without raising taxes. There is plenty of room for those cuts using creative efficiency increases including the Department of Defense so services may remain at preset levels. Then federal taxation should be raised enough to bring in a $500 billon surplus directly applied to paying down principle on the federal debt of $17 trillion. That is, $500 million dollars should be taken from the U.S. federal budget and given to pay down the principle on the public debt. Taxation should be increased enough on the middle class and rich to bring in $500 million dollars annually so the federal budget can remain the same after the initial, one-time balancing budget cuts and reformulations.

The U.S. economic health is a different item than the federal debt and budget of the U.S. Government. The state of the economy is not fundamentally reformable by either tax policy or monetary policy. Instead the U.S. economy is a result of empirical economic factors multi-nationally and the demographics of global labor, supply, demand and allocation of capital.

 With the post cold war global economic changes bringing Chinese investment to the Panama Canal and Mexico, illegal alien migration to the U.S.A., foreign investments in China as minority shareholders and internationalization of U.S. public debt there is less direct relationship between American capitalists and American workers than formerly. When the economy is down in the U.S.A. investors may take profits abroad. As 50 million Americans are on food stamps and more than 12 million Americans are unemployed Wall Street has recovered generally and investors have taken record profits. The middle class too has increasingly taken the side of the haves versus American have-nots while wealth has become concentrated. One percent of Americans own about 50% of the wealth of the nation.

Federal economic remedies would include incentives for hiring those longest out of work first, reduction of taxes for building small, energy efficient homes and incentives for hiring workers over age 55 that do not draw social security. Transformation of the U.S.A. to a full-employment, public debt free nation with an effective, comprehensive public welfare safety net concurrent with a robust ecologically rational economic recovery would require intelligent political leadership and the will to act. I suppose it is the political equivalence of the pay 'Waiting for Godot'.

Few Realists in Understanding Reganomics

President Ronald Reagan's economy benefited from mass deficit spending with concurrent tax cuts. That freed a lot of cash and loans for economic stimulus and it worked-the jobless rate dropped from the high of the last Carter year. Ronald Reagan of course advocated just tax cuts, yet that wasn't the economy he had. The vast military build up and Star Wars developments, the 500 ship navy were paid for with public debt. During the Reagan presidency the public debt of the U.S.A. reached about 5.3 trillion dollars if I recollect that accurately.

For the nearing 17 trillion dollar U.S. public debt to be reduced a federal budget surplus is requisite to pay the 3/4's trillion dollars of annual interest on the debt plus more to pay it down. That would require economic management competence rather than fantasy or delusion as both Republicans and Democrats prefer. Tax increases and budget cutting are needed. Yet more vital is budget reform where intelligent legislators (I am not joking) get more bang for the buck; they provide better services to the public at less cost.

The U.S. Government should not create many new federal programs that increase the number of government employees and while the private sector is not doing so well. U.S. manufacturing has decreased significantly during the Obama administration. Neither should a revitalization of the private sector fail to regard the environment and its conservation and restoration as priority number one. Politicians cannot afford to be ignorant children on the topic if a long-range eco-health is to have a chance of existing as science now understands it.

Most Guns Crimes are Consequent to Poverty, High Unemployment

Ending poverty in the U.S.A. is the best way to reduce gun crimes. Lasting poverty and ghetto strife as well as drug sales and consumerism create violence. Gentrified neighborhoods just don't have as much violence as those that are poor.

 The prosperous of course would rather repress the poor and take away their gun rights rather than increase taxes on themselves while cutting and reforming spending to create a full-employment nation where few have any interest in giving up the jacuzzi and gold course for inner urban strife and gang violence.

 The mass-media gangland is of a different sort than that of the poor. The prosperous do not have as much inter-personal violent crimes; instead they manage foreign wars where thousands and thousands of foreigners perish in dubious conflicts for complex reasons.